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I think X cannot afford analysis because of the appalling cost of the truth. It is certainly a price from which I shrink. Or, I shrink from the appalling cost of speaking the truth, the effort required and the courage. The last point, the courage, never ceases to surprise me. On the surface, nothing would seem to be simpler. In fact even when one thinks one knows the truth, I do not speak it. Colman1 said Davis was the only Welshman he knew who spoke the truth spontaneously as
[A schoolmaster at Bishop's Stortford College. Ed.]
if he did not have to consider carefully whether it would not be wise to lie. How can one form an opinion about other people?